SoulFire77
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I have 228 stories published in
11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 95093 times
and 250 of my stories have been cherry picked.
19 of my 133 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 27 votes
J. Oliver Padgett writes horror and dystopian fiction from the North Carolina Piedmont. His work explores economic coercion, institutional complicity, and what people become when survival demands compromise. Novels include "Lily", "Son of September", and "Ridgeline". His prose favors psychological dread over graphic violence, working-class authenticity over literary posturing, and endings that deny comfort. By day, he works in warehouse logistics—a background that informs his fiction's attention to the quiet machinery that grinds people down.
My stories
The Less Miserables Lose the Day (1)
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Rehearsel
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Snap Decision
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"I'm Not Finished."
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While I Wasn't Listening
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